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But they owed this to Al-Azhar Al-Sharif in Cairo, where they received their education and completed their studies under the pioneers of the Egyptian Islamic movement, which left its mark and continues to influence the course of cultural movement in Sudan to this day. And if the discussion about all these Islamic cultural sources that influenced the Islamic cultural journey in Sudan has converged to highlight that role, then another role remains at the end of the influential national Islamic roles in that culture, which is: The role of the scholars of the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad: The Iraqi source, represented by the arrival of the scholars of the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad, was one of the oldest scientific Islamic sources in Sudan, with the exception of the Egyptian source, in which Sheikh Abdullah bin Abdul Hamid Al-Omari contributed, who came to Sudan in the third Hijri century to establish an Islamic principality in northern Sudan. However, the role of the Baghdadi scholars may also reach the third Hijri century, the ninth century AD, when a group of Baghdadi scholars arrived in Dongola, the capital of the Makuria state, at that early time to teach people the matters of their Islamic religion and try to deepen and entrench those Islamic concepts in people's minds. However, the arrival of this early Baghdadi group did not complete its journey to Sudan, as we hardly know about the departure of Iraqi religious scholars, jurists, imams, and righteous people to Sudan, except from the tenth Hijri century, the sixteenth century AD, specifically in the second half of that Hijri century. It happened that some Sudanese pilgrims met some Baghdadi Islamic scholars in Mecca Al-Mukarramah, who befriended them and managed to convince them after several attempts of Sudan's need for the efforts of such a scholar, who was Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Bahari al-Baghdadi, who came to Sudan with these pilgrims.

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